red chilli, thyme leaves, lime juice and olive oil, then season, to taste, with salt. Mix until well combined. To serve, spoon the crab mixture into the lettuce leaves. Divide the filled lettuce ...

You can buy a crab live and boil it yourself ... soups or soufflés and goes well with cream, butter, lemon and chilli. Canned crabmeat is useful for adding to pasta or making quick crabcakes.

They have four generations of customers who flock to the 1,000-seat restaurant to have chilli crab done the same way since Madam Cher nailed the recipe ... the sauce or the taste were not right.